When you do this code > wf = WeeklyFixture(6) # where 6 is an id in the table so the wf is > found! > wf.football_fixtures[0].name = "value" > wf.save!
the wf has not been changed in any way. It point in the same football_fixtures item by its foreign key. The football_fixtures has changed and you should save that change. That's done by your second sample. > wf.football_fixtures[0].save On Sep 7, 12:37 pm, KevinJones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have two tables in MySQL: football_fixtures and weekly_fixtures. > In my code I have two classes > class FootballFixture > end > > and > > class WeeklyFixture > has_many :football_fixtures > end > > the WeeklyFixture class has more code than this, mostly validation > > In the console window I do this > > wf = WeeklyFixture.new > wf.somefield = somevalue > wf.save! > > and everything is OK > > however if I do > > wf = WeeklyFixture(6) # where 6 is an id in the table so the wf is > found! > wf.football_fixtures[0].name = "value" > wf.save! > > I get a return value of true, but no data is written to the database. > > I have the log visible on another terminal (tail -f development.log), > and I don't see any update call being made. (I do see selects being > made when I read the records) > > I think I'm missing something fundamental here. I assumed that when I > updated the related fields and wrote the parent model the the DB then > the save would also write the related fields, but this is not > happening. > > BTW, if I do > wf.football_fixtures[0].save > > that does work! > > What (presumably simple) magic incantation am I missing? > > Thanks, > > Kevin Jones --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
